Max Steiner(I)(1888–1971)

Austrian composer who achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. As a child he was astonishingly musically gifted, composing complex works as a teenager and completing the course of study at Vienna's Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst in only one year, at the age of sixteen. He studied under ... See full bio »

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I never run out of tunes. Music is always in my mind. Sometimes I wake up at three in the morning and begin tossing. My wife will say, 'Daddy, why don't you write it down?' So I get up, put it on a paper, and go back to sleep.

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The composers that were influenced by him are Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, John Barry, Trevor Jones, Danny Elfman, James Horner, John Williams, Bruce Broughton, Maurice Jarre, Henry Mancini, Carter Burwell & Craig Armstrong. See more
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